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Margaret tells her friends that she caught a fish called Salmo salar. What genus does the fish belong

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It belongs to the genus Salmo. As the binomial naming system states that the scientific name of an organism is made up of two parts starting with the genus (always given a capital letter) and followed by the species (starting with a lower case letter)
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